GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| overweening | arrogant |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| slur | an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |